Joe Coughlin is the Editor In Chief and Co-Founder at NewsBreak. He specializes in sports, particularly competitive sports and the business aspects surrounding them, alongside real estate development and urban development. Joe's work has been featured in the Evanston RoundTable, The Record Community News Group, and NewsBreak.
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Joe Coughlin's local coverage in Illinois and Chicago heavily focuses on sports, community events, crime reports, and high school activities. Given this emphasis, he is likely to be receptive to pitches regarding local sporting events or achievements, community initiatives and happenings in the area.
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By: Joe Coughlin
Thousands came through downtown Highland Park over the weekend to enjoy the flavors, sights and sounds of the town’s flagship event. The free Taste of Highland Park featured 12 food and beverage vendors and nearly as many musical acts between Friday and Saturday, June 19-20, headlined by alternative rock band Eve 6. For the fourth […]
By: Joe Coughlin
New Trier athletes more than double donation to those with rare medical needs with Lift for Life campaign More than 70 New Trier High School football and basketball players gathered on Tuesday, June 23, in the Winnetka campus’s fieldhouse last week to culminate their second Lift for Life campaign. The program raised more than $24,000 […]
By: Joe Coughlin
Wilmette’s and Highland Park’s fireworks shows and July 3 celebrations are no longer happening, courtesy of Mother Nature. Forecasted storms Friday night led the City of Highland Park to postpone its Independence Fest, which planned to end with fireworks for the first time since 2021, to an undetermined date. ”The City will announce the rescheduled […]
No one was injured when a driver crashed into the Northfield Post Office on Wednesday afternoon. Village police say the incident, which occurred around 3:4
By: Joe Coughlin
Highland Park took more steps forward together on Saturday morning. Down streets lined with hundreds of patriotic locals, the city’s Fourth of July parade returned for a third straight year in the aftermath of the 2022 shooting. And this year — like the year before it, and the year before that — felt different for […]
By: Joe Coughlin
A rabid bat was found on July 3 inside a home in the 400 block of Grove Street, according to the message from the Village of Glencoe. After the bat was found on July 3, it reportedly was submitted to the Illinois State Public Health Laboratory for testing. In a letter on July 7, Cook […]
The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a 2.9 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday afternoon about 12 miles off the Kenilworth shoreline. The agency reportedly received more than 400 responses to its “Did You Feel It?” program, which crowd-sources and maps information about earthquakes. A significant number of responses came from Evanston (59), Highland Park (37), Wilmette (16), […]
New Trier powerlifters capped another powerful season with a first-place program finish in the Illinois High School Powerlifting Association 2A championships on May 30 at the Winnetka high school. Five first-place finishers led the Trevians team effort, resulting in a first-place finish on the boys side (their first title since 2024), runnerup result on the […]
By: Joe Coughlin
Mosquitoes trapped in Skokie last week tested positive for the West Nile virus on Wednesday, July 8, according to a news release from the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District The abatement district, a local and public agency, has (as of press time) collected and tested more than 500 batches of mosquitoes this season. With the […]
By: Joe Coughlin
The installation of a new cooling tower this week is impacting programming at the Centennial Recreation Complex in Wilmette. Phase 1 of the $1.13 million replacement project is set for Monday-Friday, July 13-17, and alters programs to the complex’s ice facilities. While summer skating campus, as well as tennis and pool operations, will remain unchanged, […]
